Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Factors Behind the Rise in Web App Security Testing

When you are set to creating a web based application, you
need to make sure that the application is completely full proof in terms of
security. The smallest loopholes will be used by the hackers to enter and
access the database of the web application. With advanced technologies, the
hackers are becoming more potent which has caused a rise in the web app
security testing.

Invalidated Input: In most cases the information fed to
the web applications is often not validated. This makes the information
vulnerable to the attack of the hackers and this calls for increased security
testing parameters for the web based apps that are being used.

Broken Access
Control: In most
of the web applications that are developed, the amount of work that an
authenticated user may do in the so called software is not well defined. This
provides the hackers with an opportunity to breach the security system of the
applications.

Broken Authentication
and Session Management: These are some of the top factors which are used by hackers to breach
the security system and are exactly why the web app security testing is very
important. Passwords, keys, session cookies are some of the factors which the
hackers compromises in order to enter the system.

Cross Site Scripting
(XSS) Flaws: Cross
Site Scripting (XSS) Flaws refers to the system by which the hackers’ breaks
into the particular web based application in order to enter the system of the
end user where in they can create spoof content to fool the users or access the
database of the user.

Buffer Overflows: Web applications can be crashed into
due to the fact that some of the languages in which he code of the application
has been written do not get validated prominently leaving the system open to
attack by the hackers. CGI, libraries, drivers are some of the components that
are included.

Injection Flaws:As far as local operating systems or
external systems are concerned, web applications often pass parameters which
can be breached by the various hackers by injecting their own commands into these
passes which will be executed by the external system on behalf of the web
applications.

Improper Error
Handling:
Mishandling of the web application often leaves it vulnerable to the attack of
the hackers. If the hacker can insert a system which is not properly handled by
the application, then it may lead to the release of vital information from the
database of the software under considerations.

Insecure Storage: In order to store and protect the
client information, the web application often uses cryptographic functions.
These functions are rather difficult to create and integrate with the other codes of the web application which often reduces the software protection
process leaving it open to the attack of the hackers.

Denial of Service: An advanced hacker who is a pro at
his job is apt enough to crack into a system to an extent where the real user
can no longer gain access into the system. This causes the web application to
fail.

Insecure
Configuration Management: In order to ensure a strong security system for your web applications,
you need to have a strong server on which the web application is based. When
your server is weak it often leaves your web application open to various
attacks by the hackers which cause security breaches.

These are some of the major factors as to why there is a
sudden rise in the web app security testing in the current era.